Practice Management

Sharing of information on business taxes by state tax authorities could improve business tax compliance, according to a new study.

Dan Loeb’s Third Point Reinsurance Ltd. said scrutiny of the industry’s offshore tax advantage has lessened after hedge fund manager John Paulson closed a venture that stood out as an “outlier” for its aggressive use of strategies that were criticized as abuses.

While Europe and global financial markets are consumed by the prospect of Brexit, business rolls on in Brussels.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Payments that a business makes are generally deductible if they are “ordinary and necessary” under Internal Revenue Service regulations unless, that is, they are specifically denied deductibility.

A House committee voted Wednesday to censure Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen over Republican claims that he obstructed an investigation into whether his agency targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

The cost of compliance with the ever-growing Tax Code costs U.S. taxpayers a total of 8.9 billion hours and $409 billion, according to new research.

Developing trust is complicated, but trust is the ultimate competitive advantage for winning and retaining clients.

The Internal Revenue Service has released final regulations relating to the exclusion from gross income of discharge of indebtedness income of a grantor trust or an entity that is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance on whether payments from a qualified retirement plan during a phased retirement are considered an annuity.